New issues -
๐ฎ๐ช An Post (postal service of the Irish Republic) -
31 March 2023 - Irish country music singers - 1 self-booklet containing 5 different stamps. Lithographed by Enschedรฉ. Rating:- **.
๐ฎ๐ณ India Post -
30 March 2023 - ‘Legends of Odisha’, performing arts celebrities of the state of Odisha - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ***.
๐ฌ๐ง Royal Mail -
10 April 2023 (on sale until 5 May 2023) - Post and Go stamps, dispensed from kiosk A003 situated at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, based at RNAS Yeovilton near Ilchester in Somerset - 2 stamps both with additional inscriptions - ‘Carrier Experience’ (new exhibition at the museum) - one is the Machin Head stamp and the other the Union Flag stamp.
Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal services are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimacy postage stamps so far in 2023 -
Anguilla
Antigua And Barbuda
Barbados
Belize
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Dominica
eSwatini
Gabon
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Maldives
Montserrat
Nauru
Nevis
Nigeria
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Penrhyn Cook Islands
Rwanda
St Helena
St Kitts
Saint Lucia
St Vincent and The Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Togo
Tokelau
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks And Caicos Islands
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
By the end of March therefore, 40 out of 88 ( 45.5%) Commonwealth philatelic entities remained on the list. This compares with 56.3% at the end of March last year.